{"id":1772,"date":"2012-03-02T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:18:30","slug":"fridays-friends-5-jenny-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/fridays-friends-5-jenny-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Fridays & Friends #5 – Jenny G"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s already March! \u00a0I can already see the little buds on the trees outside my apartment, and I must admit, I’m really looking forward to spring.<\/p>\n

It was just under a year ago that I met this month’s Friday & Friend’s artist, Jenny G. \u00a0It was friendship at first sight<\/em> (swoon). \u00a0I proudly tell people that meeting her was the best thing that happened to me on that trip out to Montreal – because it’s true. \u00a0Here is the one and only, brilliant, Jenny G.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

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Jenny G - Installation view from the series The Last Day of Summer Forever, from the exhibition Alternorthern, The Lab, San Francisco, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roselina Hung:<\/strong>\u00a0How did we first meet?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jenny G:\u00a0<\/strong>I was riding my bike and you were in a cab, through the glass our eyes met in Montreal, 2011.<\/p>\n

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Jenny G - UNTITLED, Mixed media on paper mounted on aluminum, 36\u201d x 48", 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me a bit about yourself…<\/em><\/p>\n

JG:<\/strong>\u00a0I’m from Vancouver. Lived in Montreal where I graduated from Concordia University in ’08, lived in San Francisco, and am back living in Vancouver yet again.<\/p>\n

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Jenny G - UNTITLED, Mixed media on paper mounted on aluminum, ~55" x 40", 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me about your work…<\/em><\/p>\n

JG:\u00a0<\/strong>I like to work on paper. Not only does it allow for direct contact, but it holds up to aggressive mark making. It’s easy to cut or add more surface quickly, so there’s a sense of spontaneity that melds well with my process. All my work is on some sort of paper, and I use a wide range of mediums on top of that; oil paint, oil stick, pastels, acrylic paint, spray paint, ink, graphite, charcoal.<\/p>\n

Each project is a physical record of my conversation within the subject of bridging abstract ideas and lived ones. It’s like when you\u2019re a kid, there\u2019s no difference between the things you imagine and the things you experience; and when you\u2019re older, there\u2019s always an explanation for ideas and their actions. In my practice, I explore the area between these two opposing processes: intuitive thought and critical thought. I guess that’s why my work seemingly hovers in the tense space between abstraction and representation. Each piece begins where the last one left off and progresses in a \u2018one foot in front of the next\u2019 manner. To start, I approach the formal and conceptual problems of my past pieces by working. What was successful? And most importantly, what was not? I’m always looking for that area which is not comfortable for me to work, and use my baggage of formal tools to unpack and reorganize the picture plane.<\/p>\n

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Jenny G - RED AND GREEN 1, Digital c-print on Fujiflex Crystal Archive, 16\u201d x 14\u201d, 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0What are you currently working on?<\/em><\/p>\n

JG:<\/strong> My newest project involves working uniquely on a tablet in Photoshop, and then printing them out as digital c-prints, on Fujiflex Crystal Archive. It’s exciting for me to start thinking about the process of working large scale in the physical world and living through the process, versus creating within the perimeter of a tablet and not seeing the final product until it’s done. Both are good.<\/p>\n

RH:\u00a0<\/strong>Where can people find your work?<\/em><\/p>\n

JG:<\/strong>\u00a0On my website\u00a0www.gjennyg.com<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0and I’ve started to keep a record of things I like on\u00a0my Tumblr<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Jenny G - UNTITLED, Oil paint on paper mounted on aluminum, 22\u201d x 30\u201d, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RH:<\/strong>\u00a0Tell me one fun fact about yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n

JG:<\/strong>\u00a0My childhood celebrity crush was Steve Buscemi.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Jenny! \u00a0And Steve Buscemi really is the bee’s knees. \u00a0He completely trumps my multitude of childhood celebrity crushes any day of the week.<\/p>\n

Please visit\u00a0www.gjennyg.com<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to view more of Jenny’s work.<\/p>\n

Read past Fridays & Friends posts here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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